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Greater Tube-nosed Bat

Murina leucogaster A. Milne-Edwards, 1872

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

The greater tube-nosed bat (Murina leucogaster) is a species of bat. An adult greater tube-nosed bat has a body length of 4.2-5.7 cm, a tail length of 3.6-4.1 cm, and a wing length of 3.7-4.4 cm. The species is found in India, Mongolia, China, and Korea.

The greater tube-nosed bat's call has twelve simple syllables and five composites with harmonics in the ultrasonic range. When emitting aggression calls, they bare their teeth, pull up their wings, and attack other individuals by biting. Males have stereotypical mating behaviors of shaking their bodies and licking their genitalia.

Wikipedia contributors, Greater tube-nosed bat; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T09:43:17.632821+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Murina leucogaster A. Milne-Edwards, 1872
Name authority
A. Milne-Edwards, 1872
Common name
Greater Tube-nosed Bat
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Murina
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
  9. subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
  10. infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
  11. orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
  12. suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
  13. superfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
  14. familyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821
  15. subfamilyMurininae Miller, 1907
  16. genusMurina Gray, 1842
  17. speciesMurina leucogaster A. Milne-Edwards, 1872

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Murina. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Beelzebub Tube-nosed BatMurina beelzebub Son, Furey & Csorba, 2011VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Dusky Tube-nosed BatMurina fusca Sowerby, 1922VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Guillén's Tube-nosed batMurina guilleni Soisook, Karapan, Satasook, Thong, Khan, Maryanto, Csorba, Furey, Aul & Bates, 2013VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed BatMurina hilgendorfi (Peters, 1880)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Hutton's Tube-nosed BatMurina huttonii (Peters, 1872)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Taiwan Tube-nosed BatMurina puta Kishida, 1924VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Dun Tube-nosed BatMurina recondita Kuo, Fang, Csorba & Lee, 2009VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ryukyu Tube-nosed BatMurina ryukyuana Maeda & Matsumura, 1998VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Shuipu Tube-nosed BatMurina shuipuensis Eger & Lim, 2011VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Gloomy Tube-nosed BatMurina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ussuri Tube-nosed BatMurina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ashy Tube-nosed BatMurina feae (Thomas, 1891)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 407 records assigned to Vespertilionidae.

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Southern Asia

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=632169 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:44N39. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.